Redemption

She struggles against her bonds Her arms are strapped at the wrists Thick leather bonds cross her chest and stomach Her ankles are shackled and bonded A gag is in her mouth cover by a muzzle

The room is pitch dark But her mind plays tricks Things are moving in the dark Dancing in her vision.

It's cold in here. But her body has given up shivering Her throat is sore with screams All in vain because they all echoed back At least now she knows Her prison seems deep and endless

Her body is covered in lacerations From the things lurking in the darkness She's stopped crying out with every slice She's given into the pain Accepting and welcoming the torture

Far away a door swings on squeaky hinges A sliver of light falls into the dark It doesn't reach her In fact it barely stretches out Before the darkness swallows it.

A figure steps in shrouded in shadows His steps echo on forever in every direction A fear creeps into the girl Spreading through her Somethings different, somethings changed But not for the better. How can it get worse?

He walks for what seems eternity Every footfall sounding threateningly As he steps up to her She gives up and goes limp Prepared to take anything he's going to give

In a deep voice slick with evil He speaks not to her but the darkness "Leave her alone..." Her heart lifts He's come to set her free Come to bring her to the light

"You've let her get too weak, Bled her out too much. She'll die if you keep it up Give her time to heal before you start again." With that he turns on his heals He walks back to the door Then turns to address her "Darling, you'll see me again Our next meeting will be worse, Worse thank everything here. But after, if you do everything right, You'll thank me." The door opens and squeals shut behind him.

The truth sinks into her flesh And her slow beating blood. She's being kept alive just to endure more She's here to be tortured by the dark And a decision is made, she wants to die, to end this all. But even that power has been taken away. "Let me die! Kill me!" She pleads with the creatures Scuttling nervously at her feet and around her. "I can't take any more! Let me die!"

From the darkness around her head Emerges a creature, it's eyes are filled with sorrow Quickly it runs it's razor claws Across her throat and then both wrists Leaving deep, dark crevices The warm blood flows freely and fast She takes a deep, shaky breath relief flooding her body and mind. The creature cuts loose all her bonds She falls to the ground finally free. She never would have made it out on her own An eternity in the dark would have been her future If not for this merciful monster. She whispers to him, "Thank you. You've set me free."

The creature is ripped from her side She hears it being torn apart for it's betrayal And it seems fair, it wasn't happy either

She feels her life ebbing away The beats of her tired heart slowing down The flow weakening She takes another breath and slips into the dark But this is a peaceful darkness And it's not long before she's flooded by light

She's free.

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Well, the poem is highly metaphorical. I'm going through depression right now so I suppose I am the girl the man that comes in is death and the deamons are my own self destruction representing cutting. The last monster is suicide. It was a story spin on my feelings.